Suzette Richards Quotes

Free verse might be defined as a poem designed to encapsulate a person’s musings in a personal, stylised format—serendipity of thoughts meandering towards a decisive conclusion or left unresolved for the reader to mull over.
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Satire is the literary equivalent of a facepalm.
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Overthinking is the enemy of the poet.
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Poetry should be felt, rather than understood. In other words, a poem should make the reader feel something—not by telling them what to feel, but by evoking feeling directly.
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Writing poetry is like skipping stones on the water: your poetic prowess will determine how long it will take before it inevitably sinks into oblivion.
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What is a word? Who does it belong to? An empty vessel at best! A chair is not a chair until someone sits in it. Poets can only grow if given free rein in their lonely pursuit of excellence.
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Poetry is like a road trip without a GPS - you never know which direction of thought and/or emotion your poem would take when read by others and, therefore, the poet's duty is to set a train of thought in motion and to stand back and not try to control how others might interpret his offerings.
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What is a POET? When the ink dries up, we scribble on stone. The words we share are our souls exhaling.
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Poetry is the comfort food of our youth which nourishes our memories.
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A poet is someone who has the courage to wear his heart on his sleeve. ~ Suzette Richards
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When the poets fall silent man will not only lose his voice but also the notion of Life. ~Suzette Richards
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